[News] Palestine Action Covers BBC Building In Red Paint

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Palestine Action Covers BBC Building In Red Paint
By Palestine Action - October 15, 2023
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NOTE: Protests outside the factory in Leicester by Palestine Action
continue, now going on for more than 150 days.

To Symbolise Complicity in Genocide.

Today, Palestine Action sprayed the BBC’s Headquarters with blood red
paint, in response to it’s recent coverage of Palestine, which has been
complicit in manufacturing consent for the occupation’s genocide of
Palestinians. The action occurred before a protest for Palestine was due to
begin at the BBC HQ. Since October 7th, the BBC has given biased and
inaccurate reporting on the Israeli massacre of the Palestinian people. It
has only ever invited Palestinians to comment when Israelis are killed,
with little regard for Palestinians killed by Israel, such as in the case
of Palestinian ambassador Husam Zomlot who was expected to condemn Israeli
deaths immediately after informing the BBC he had lost 6 family members [1
<https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-blasted-for-cold-and-callous-row-with-palestinian-ambassador-360512/>
].

It has not reported on the racist lies spouted by international media,
including claims of mass rape and decapitated babies, all of which have
either gone unconfirmed or been retracted once the damage has been done [2
<https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html>
].

It’s “guides” to the “conflict” do not mention the 75 year long occupation
and oppression of Palestine by the Zionist entity [3
<https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396>]. These guides make Al Nakba
(which translates as ‘The Catastrophe’ in English) sound like an
unfortunate tribal conflict which accidentally resulted in Palestinians
fleeing, and not the deliberate and carefully planned campaign of ethnic
cleansing carried out by Zionist militias, who were supported and armed by
the British [4
<https://decolonizepalestine.com/intro/the-mandate-years-and-the-nakba/>].
Words upon words are dedicated to the settler colony’s declarations of
genocide, the support given by imperialists and the feelings of Zionists
whilst large scale loss of Palestinian life is treated almost like a
footnote.

These actions come at a time when Palestine Action has expanded its reach,
starting what it calls Palestine Action Underground, which targets any and
all partners of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms suppliers. Providing a
guide and a map of over 50 Elbit sites [5
<https://b6x8a4d7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pal_Manual_2.pdf>
][6 <http://elbitsites.uk/>], Palestine Action asks those who want to do
something about the Israeli arms trade to form autonomous groups able to
independently strike at the facilitators of Israel’s systemic and military
violence. This action follows that principle, holding the media accountable
for facilitating Israeli terror.

A Palestine Action spokesperson:

‘We at Palestine Action cannot stand by and let Western media justify and
manufacture consent for genocide through racist, callous coverage. The
media has long been an insidious weapon of Western imperialism against
Palestine and other Arab countries, with the use of colonial myths and
orientalist tropes laying the ground for millions of people to be murdered.
As the Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd said, “This is the Iraq war all
over again. The media has the bloodiest hands in all of this.”[7
<https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1712484643470200903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet>
]’

*Endnotes:*

[1]
http://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bbc-blasted-for-cold-and-callous-row-with-palestinian-ambassador-360512/

[2]
http://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-beheading-claims-intl/index.html

[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-44124396

[4] http://decolonizepalestine.com/intro/the-mandate-years-and-the-nakba/

[5] http://b6x8a4d7.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Pal_Manual_2.pdf

[6] http://elbitsites.uk

[7]
http://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1712484643470200903?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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